Class 12 Recap

For today's final class I really enjoyed seeing every ones final project. I think it was a good assignment to end the class with. I also learned allot from others during this summer course that I will use in the future. To conclude it was a great class that I think every new media student should take in order to get in touch with their creative side and perhaps learn to see sideways when thinking of new ideas and directions.

Course Final Thoughts

In taking the course Seeing Sideways I must say it definitely earned its title. I found my favorite aspects of this class is not knowing what to expect. The classes were not predictable or solely ran by the teacher.I enjoyed and didn't enjoy being taken out of my comfort zone. I felt like this class was designed to further your creativity and open your mind to different thoughts. I do feel that I have gotten this from this class. I also enjoyed looking at other peoples projects and I did and didn't enjoy showing mines. What I like least about the class what sometimes I felt I really had to dig deep to figure out how I was going to go about a project. Example would be the bible dipping symbol for sound. That was challenging,but I felt I was able to show it the way I interpreted in my mind whether it was right or wrong. Although I noticed there was not allot of right or wrong answers in this class,which is good. To conclude I enjoyed having another one of your classes and looking at some of your creative work you have done because I am very interested in poetry and enjoy photo shop as well.

Class 11 Recap

During class yesterday we viewed videos that made you question what is real and what is not. I found this class to be interesting because it made me think about allot of stuff I use to think about. Such as are there really ghost? Which I believe there are. What other dimensions are out there? How much control does are body really have over our mind? I concluded that life is allot more complex then we may notice on a daily bases and to not be open to the possibilities will only stunt us in time. Also we talked about Toy story some. I thought it was a great movie,it was really intense because it finally showed when Andy grew up. It was a worry that the toys had that they had to face in Toy story 3. Anyhow sad but great movie.

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Class 9 Recap

Yesterday in class we went over some of the projects we did with contrast. I particularly enjoyed that assignment once I understood what the teacher was looking for. We also viewed a students poster that I found to be very interesting and creative. We conclude on going to the art museum and watching Toy Story 3 instead of class Wednesday,which I think is a great trade off.

Final Project Bingo

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I choose Todd’s egg project as my favorite project. I choose it because it made me think of the movie the Diary of Anne Frank and the whole holocaust scene. I felt that the music and the black and white colors allowed me to go back in time. The one egg looking as though it was targeted and later being shot in the end gave me an eerie feeling of what it might have been like to be a victim of the holocaust.

1. What if there was different music used?
2. What if the video included sub titles?
3. What if there was a loud scream after the shot?
4. What if it wasn’t in black and white?
5. What if you could make this video without sound?
6. What if the video wasn’t a video?
7. What if you had someone reading a poem in the background?
8. What if there was only one egg used?
9. What if all the eggs were smashed and the music played?
10. What if you could make the egg crack in slow motion?
11. What if you did the whole video in reverse?
12. What if you used bright colors?
13. What if the song was a joyful song?
14. What if the video was longer?
15. What if there was just music playing?
16. What if the orange color on the egg was green?
17. What if each egg didn’t disappear slowly?
18. What if all the eggs disappeared at once?
19. What if the side eggs were shot instead of the middle?
20. What if the side eggs reappeared after the other egg was shot?
21. What if blood came out of all the eggs?
22. What if the music had the words kill in it?
23. What if you put the eggs on a different surface?
24. What if someone was holding each egg?
25. What if there wasn’t a sound of a shot at the end?
26. What if there was a narrator?
27. What if you interviewed what people thought about the video and included it in the back ground?
28. What if you did the project as a regular image instead of a video?
29. What if you had a title and credits at the end?
30. What if you had the sound of someone crying in the video?
31. What if you had the sound of someone laughing in the video?
32. What if you had the sound of several people screaming with gun shots going off in the background?
33. What if you replaced the eggs with different objects?
34. What if the eggs were made to look like they were drowning in water?
35. What if some of the eggs were blind folded?
36. What if there was a gun held next to the eggs?
37. What if a knife smashed through the middle egg?
38. What if the eggs were hanging as though they were murdered?
39. What if someone was pleading for the eggs safety in the background?
40. What if the video was shot up side down?
41. What if there were bright lights used so that you could barely see the eggs?
42. What if there was a grave scene after the middle egg was shot?
43. What if there was writing on the eggs?
44. What if someone spoke in another language on the video?
45. What if the shot missed the egg?
46. What if every other egg was slowly shot to create fear?
47. What if the eggs were cooked eggs with red food color mixed in them?
48. What if the video was done with rain coming down on the eggs?
49. What if you could make the illusion that the eggs were trying to escape?
50. What if the eggs shot back?

Five questions from classmate I liked.
1. What if it was raining? I liked this one because I like videos with rain scenes.
2. What if it was snowing? I like this one because I like the way snow looks on film.
3. What if he was walking? I like this one because it subtracted the car completely.
4. What if he got a flat tire? I like this one because its unexpected.
5. What if it was a truck instead of a mustang?I like this because it throws you off.

Contrast

I and my partner picked up a variety of items found in nature that contrasted with each other. So the final result was a bouquet of contrast,which displayed a dark petal that contrasted with a light petal. There was also a dead piece of a bush that contrasted with an alive bush that represented the contrast of death and life. Along with those items we found contrast with a smooth stem and a stick that represented the contrast between texture. From this I was inspired to narrow down my multiple contrasting items to one final image that I decided to photo shop and add some extra texture and contrast to.I found by doing this it was a good representation of allot of the different contrast I found all in one. This image represents contrast between dead and alive with one flower being alive amongst the dead ones. Contrast between color is another one,with the flower standing out with a bright color tone from the dull more faded color. I also felt that this image represented texture. The petals on the the flower are smooth and soft while the dead petals are rough and dry along with the overall back ground contrasting in its smooth and rough texture.. In this image I was able to tie my multiple contrast into once collaborating photo.

Class 8 Recap

During class today we discussed our final project by the name of bingo. We are basically going to be using someone else's work as inspiration for a project. Then we will be narrowing a list down to five questions in which the class is going to have to guess which question from the list we are referring to. We also did an exercise on contrast. We had an hour 1/2 to gather items and create something that gave contrast. Me and my partner ended up gathering several things that had contrast for inspiration.

Class 7 Recap

In reviewing what others did for their Reality and Fear assignment I found a few of them including my own interesting,but overall they were all good. One titled My reality drew my attention because he reminded me of myself with his interpretation of his reality,which he stated was a culmination of what he sensed and what he didn't sense. I agree with him that each and ever person's reality can be made up of what the perceive. Another student that caught my attention stated that reality only sets in when something major happens. That makes sense to me because I too kind of go through each day like the one before until something drastic happens and I start to think about reality very seriously. The next thing we were to look into was fear, what was the thing we feared the most. For me I stated that I or one of my family members getting into a fatal car wreck. I feel that driving is something we have to do allot and so the res no way to avoid the risk. Some other students said being alone, graduating, deep oceans, spiders. He mentioned things I would not have thought of right off,but can agree with all of them actually. When you really think about it there are allot of fears we have that prevent us from enjoying or doing the things we truly want to do at times in life.

Class 6 Recap

During Wednesdays class we went over every ones symbol for sound assignment. Allot of people did videos that interpreted their view of symbol for sound. One example was a number video in which he wrote out numbers while having some one in the background say each number kind of like the count on Sesames Street. One that was interesting was a Fluoride video where the student remixed Run Dmc's song. Still another student had a universe type interpretation of a symbol for sound.Also a student made up new codes for playing golf. I found the videos we watched towards the end of class to be very unique and creative. It gave me all types of ideas for future projects.

Walking on Broken Glass

The topic picked was symbol for sound. Some ideas I came up with was to some how make an image that would represent a symbol from a song I like from the 90's "Walking on Broken glass" written and performed by singer Annie Lennox that interen would provoke sound. I felt this image would be memorable in the fact the feet actually have blood coming out instead of just feet walking on broken glass. Some limitations in what i am doing is people may not interpret my image as a symbol for sound right off until I explain it. Some compromises I could make is putting music notes on the image,but I prefer people to figure it out. The inspirations that led me to interpreting the topic the way I did is I summed up the only thing that symbol for sound could possibly mean is a symbol that makes sound or a symbol that can cause sound,which is what I did. Along with the fact that I like music it kind of inspired me to find a song I like. So I decided to correlate an image that would cause me to think of the song Walking on Broken glass then from that causing me to sing it out loud creating sound. Therefore the image is a symbol for sound. What interest me about my approach to the exercise was I didn't do something that was obvious that someone could instantly figure out. I feel that my interpretation of symbol for sound may be interesting to others in that it s something they will have to guess at before getting it right kind of like a brain teaser. What I will be presenting to class is the final image I did in photo shop in which I added glass around someone walking in blood. I will then be able to explain my interpretation of symbol for sound with an actual image that will help people understand what I mean.

Class 5 Recap

In class today a couple of students discussed what inspired them,which I found inspiring. We then discussed our next assignment and one of the students did bible dipping concluding that we would have our next project be symbol for sound. I think this is going to be an interesting project because it makes you go way out the box in order to do it in my opinion. Then we watched a very interesting,but odd movie called Running with Scissors. From what I summed up it was a shrink who started out relatively normal with his patience to get them coming on a regular bases. He then offered a anti anxiety type of pill when the person didn't seem to need it at the time. I later figured out that he was taken what I believe sane people with personal issues and making them insane in order to take control of their money and life. Once his daughter said he took seventy five thousand dollars of her money to save the house it was clear he would take any ones. I also concluded that the doctor was just as crazy because of his discovery in the toilet so it was basically an insane man making others in sane.

Inspiration

My definition of inspiration is reward. Meaning the end result of what ever I am doing gives me the drive to do it. I am inspired to go to college in order to obtain a degree. I am inspired to work in order to get a paycheck. I am inspired to study in order to gain knowledge and receive a good grade. I also have inspiration for much long-term goals that I wont receive the reward for a long period of time, such as investing and saving money. I am a strong believer of planting seeds early and reaping the benefits later in life. Inspiration also means patients, not immediate gratification because you really don't have to be inspired to get something instantly. Money is probably one of the most popular inspirations for people. Money is an inspiration for me because there are many things you can do an change with money if you know what you're doing of course. Family is another inspiration of mines. Family inspires me to do the things I need to do in order to assist them. Independence is another form of inspiration for me. Meaning the harder I work to change something the more independence I will have from that particular obstacle I might have in life. Inspiration in my opinion doesn't have one meaning because different things inspire different people.

Class 4 Recap

I feel that Mondays class was not successful in being a group when class started. I think the IUPUI culture of isolating one self was obvious. I being just as guilty hadn't even realized I was even that way. I also feel as the class went on we continued to show displays of isolation by not setting in a group when out doors and hesitating to talk about what we did or for the next person to go. I think this is because its human nature as well to stay in your comfort zone. I thought what people talked about was interesting and the examples by the teacher were to. I feel that this class continues to be interesting and unpredictable.

Egg Assignment Redo

For my project redo I will be re doing my egg assignment. I feel that the egg project was an interesting one that I enjoyed doing. I did the project the way I did because I thought having the egg experience my day would be a unique experience. What I liked about this project is that I had to take out extra time to think about an egg while doing my daily routines. What I disliked about this project is trying to figure out what to exactly do with the egg. I wanted to choose this particular project to re-examine because I wanted to see how the egg experience would be with someone else I knew and if they had been careless like I had or was it just simple to have an egg with you at all times.
I decided that I would re do the egg assignment since I still actually had my egg. This time around I k new to be more careful after the first experience, but apparently not my friend. I decided I would let someone else experience a day with my egg and report back to me. Well I let my friend Jennifer take on this challenge,which she thought was very funny. She decides the egg would tag along with her throughout her day like it did mines. So she takes the egg to work and puts it in a safe spot so she says. Jennifer said people questioned it, and two of her co-workers decided to play catch with it,but it didn't break. The egg was also given a name of Breakfast by her co-workers as well and was referred to that name for the rest of the day. Then when she got off of work she went to Marsh and took the egg in the store with her. Jennifer said it was kind of awkward trying to figure out what to actually do with the egg while shopping so she put it in napkins gotten from work and stuck It in her purse leaving it open so it could enjoy the experience. So anyhow Jennifer and the egg listened to music on the drive back to her house. She then said she put the egg back into her purse to keep it safe while she got the groceries out of her car. Well apparently she was really into what she was doing and forgot about it she says because she left it in her pursue. The same pursue her dog decided to go into because she set it on the floor White putting up groceries. When she remembers she notices her dog has egg yolk all over his face that he is happily licking off. Jennifer then says she remembers where she had left the egg only to find what was left of the egg smashed all over her pursue. So I conclude although I almost dropped the egg twice it was allot safer with me. Also the whole experience was entertaning especially hearing about my friends experience with the egg although I was a little annoyed the egg ended up being attacked by her dog in the end.

Bliss

My activity of choice I choose to do for three hours that I really enjoyed was going to the movies. the movie I went to see was Shrek, which turned out to be just as good as t he first two. It was basically about Shrek wanting a day like the old times when everyone feared him and he could take a mud bath in piece without a tourist bus showing up at his house everyday. He also wanted a day before Fiona and his kids were in his life. So he ended u signing what he thought was a one day contract with Rumpelstiltskin who he didn't realize had a long time grudge against him for messing up his chances of taking over Far Far Away. So Rumpelstitskin trick him into an unfair contract that only a kiss from true love could beak. So Shrek who realized he didn't now what he had until it was gone had to earn Fiona's love back. He ended up doing that in an interesting way and they lived happily ever after of course. Now since the movie only took up about an hour and fort minutes of my three hours I decided to use my remaining time doing something else I really liked, which is being out doors. so on Sunday when the weather was nice I went to the canal and walked around for a while and relaxed to finish off my blissful day.

Can't you tell my Poem is different?

Rebellion!!!

created by Tiffany

Life's about living a rebel

So I like living as the devil

Running, screaming, kicking shins

Planning other devious sins

What is life without a little danger

Disobey parents and talk to a stranger

Run around with scissors and knives

Swearing on other people's lives

No one is really a goody-goody-two-shoes

It's all about run and let the leash loose

Steal the keys and go for a joy ride Life

can't be fun if you stowe away and hide

How can life be fun if you won't get in trouble

Give it all you've got - you don't have to be subtle

Because we all have less sugar than spice you might as forget

everything nice few words I've changed few words are mine the

poem you can't see as clear as mine is it the same I'm not sure

who really cares the thought is a bore I live on the edge so that
thought I will ignore... plagrism

No not me

not interested in my poem so read no more

your thoughts of this I will not explore

Endangered Egg

I decided that my egg would continue the remaining of the day with me. So I made it a seat out of two gloves left in my car so it wouldn't fall while I was driving and stuck it in my drink holder. The ride home was fine,but I soon realized I shouldn't try to pick up the egg while having my book bag, purse, books, and the egg at the same time. Once I was almost out of my garage into the house I dropped and a second later caught the egg! Okay so lesson learned and I put down my stuff and took the egg up stairs. All was well for a couple of hours because I decided to put the egg in front of the tv to watch while I worked on some stuff on my laptop. Well apparently I was really into what I was doing and when I came back to set down I forgot I had placed the egg on on the coach and set down causing the egg to roll to the edge,but again I caught it. Anyhow after two scares I put the egg in a safer place and it made it through the night.